Howard, thanks... Your assumption is correct. Mail, action, addr was what I was trying. I'll see if I can rewire to addr, email item, file.
-Tom On Mar 2, 12:49 pm, Howard Melman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:40 AM, denap wrote: > > > disclaimer: I'm a new PC convert to Macs and trying to get familiar > > with the world. Even newer to QS. > > > When I invoke QS and type Mail <tab> send email compose, I always get > > the mail.app application itself as an attachment to the new email. > > The composition screen pops up nicely, its just been fed this ~250MB > > attachment I need to delete... This is on leopard (10.5.6) and QS > > beta54 (3815). > > > Sorry if this is a known issue, I couldn't find it. > > Welcome. It sounds like you have Mail.app in the first pane and are > using the Email To... action (in the 2nd pane) and then choosing an > email address in the third pane. > > If you just want to mail someone, bring up their address (or contact) > in the first pane and use the Compose Email action in the 2nd. > > If you want to send an attachment you can use the Email Item... action > instead so the 3 panes would be: > <address> Email Item... <file> > > Quicksilver often adapts to you. So if instead of thinking "I want to > send John this file" you think "I want to send this file to John" you > can also do: > > <file> Email To... <address> > > Note that the action is a different one, Email To.. instead of Email > Item... and note the the name of the action hints at what it expects > in the 3rd pane. > > Note also that since QS adapts and learns what you want to do based on > what you type, it means if you type something into QS you might get > one result and if I type the same thing I might get a different > result. A simple example is if you type J into the first pane you > might see the contact John and I will see one of my contacts, say Jim. > This works for actions too. So when reporting issues, it's better to > say what things are in each of the panes rather than what you typed. > > You will probably learn a lot about Quicksilver from looking at the > manual. It's an easy to use program and very powerful, but it's not > obvious. > > http://mysite.verizon.net/hmelman/Quicksilver.pdf > > Howard
